Timeless Beauty

I was talking to a friend of mine about spas and salons proliferating in the city. People it seems have become more conscious of their skin care needs. I don't know why and when this started but the existence of so many establishments catering to body scrubs, foot scrubs, body massages, facial treatments and other dermatological enhancements is so remarkable for a little urban city like Iloilo. This friend who has gone with his wife to a spa for a body massage was telling us what the experience was like. It was a luxury to feel such pampering. His whole body, he said, was relaxed and he felt like all the stresses of the past week has gone out of him. But what he really preferred, however, was the sauna bath. He's a smoker and he felt that sweating out the toxins was a good detoxifying process. Personally I'd like to try the full body scrub because secretly I like to feel squeaky clean. Besides there are some areas on my body which I can not normally reach around when I'...

Well the bride and groom have gone to their honeymoon. They are probably enjoying some sun and surf at some Caribbean resort. The word was that they had one of those Caribbean villa rentals for the 2-week vacation they both needed. Why two weeks? Both are too involved with their work they can't afford to lose time beyond the two weeks they're allowed for their honeymoon. But hey, they got a lifetime of being together. If you were in their place, what more could you ask for? Just a bit of trivia... The original tradition of a couple going away for some time began with a story of bride-napping in North European history. For a man to claim a woman, he must abduct her and hide her from family and friends for some time until the bride's family gave up their search. The "honeymoon" tradition was also interpreted by British poets and prose writers in the 16th and 17th centuries as a waxing and waning of marital affection based on the Nordic notion. To the Northern Europ...

There is this motto that I go by ever since I experienced working in a call center two years ago. It goes like this: "Work hard. Play hard." A friend I met at that call center taught me the meaning of that saying. We can all work our butts hard enough, run our selves aground in our jobs, but everything is meaningless without experiencing happiness and satisfaction from our personal lives. We must learn how to balance our professional and our personal lives. It was my first time to work in a call center. A busy and noisy place it was. The sounds of agents talking to people in the US to add another account for mortgage lenders , to sign up for a personality development course, or to buy another satellite TV subscription. Everybody's into making that sale, generating the most leads or getting the highest number of appointments. Plus we have team leaders breathing down our backs to make only quality calls. But above the stress, the politics and the lack of sleep, I always rem...

I often check my body in the mirror to look for signs of aging. It's not only our skin that sags but also our muscles, especially in "critical" areas like our ass, behind our thighs, below our upper arms, our stomachs and for women the breasts. I keep checking for the sags and bags. My body is still firm except for my stomach which I can't get rid of that little fat that makes my belly curve a little. I don't want to get fat. Period. But I'm concerned with the ingredients in weight loss pills nowadays. So of course I turned to the ever reliable Internet to search for organic weight loss pills. I found Proactol through a free Ezinearticle. Visiting their website revealed some weighty facts on how Proactol works and what its main ingredient is. It says there: Proactol™ is a patented fibre complex that is a 100% natural, 100% organic fat binder made from the nutritious cactus "Opuntia ficus-indica". Proactol™ natural fibre, complex consists of two fib...

This post diverges from the usual skin care and beauty topics I discuss here. It's something related to my personal life. It's rare that I get to share what's happening on my end. A friend of mine from Davao has sent me an alert through Friendster that the photos from their paintball outing can now be seen online. It was a pleasure to see my friends' faces shining with happiness as they posed in full tactical gear outfits complete with their weapons. When I was over at Davao visiting my company's branch office for training, me and some of my friends there were talking about going out and playing some paintball. We played badminton every weekend to relieve stress. As a change of activity we were planning to do paintball instead of just going to the beach. We've done that before and it's really easy to go to beaches when you're in Davao. But then I have to go home to Iloilo. I wasn't able to go to the planned paintball trip. But at least I was able to...

If you have been visiting this blog for some time now, you would have noticed the changes I did on the way the page now looks. The sidebars before have been filled with too many graphics that it slows page loading. I did wonder if it's because I needed another RAM upgrade on my PC, but before I pull out cash to purchase the needed part, I have to test first if it's because the page itself was too heavy for my PC. I just installed the YSlow addon on my Firefox and it told me it takes like 200 plus seconds for my page to load fully. So what I did was to take off the load from the sidebars and transferred most of those badges and buttons at the bottom. I'm not willing to delete all of them. Some have been placed as a reciprocal link and they do direct traffic to this blog, so there's a sense of gratitude there. But soon I have to do something else to lessen page loading. And regarding that RAM upgrade... Perhaps I should really upgrade. This will help me do my job faster,...

I was gifted with gold jewelry on my birthday recently. It was a delicate gold bracelet beautifully adorned with Swarovski crystals. I wore it when I attended the wedding of my sister's friend. It was great at first, with some of the ladies complimenting my newest accessory, but later in the evening I began to feel some itchiness underneath my bracelet. The sensitive skin on my wrist started to turn reddish. I thought then that I was allergic to gold. It was my first time to wear such an elegant jewelry. I rarely wear anything made of gold. I rather prefer silver, wood or any other inexpensive material. After the wedding when we all went home, I immediately did some research on skin allergies with gold jewelries and gold watches . Some people do complain about having contact dermatitis with gold watches or gold jewelries, but the experts say it isn't caused by gold, but rather by nickel. Nickel is often used as a strengthening alloy for gold since it's soft when pure. Accor...